Ice-carrier for automobiles



APPLICATION FILED MAY 24, 1919s Patented Oct. 1,2, 1920'.

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Specicaton of Letters Patent.

imeutemtcedi ihct. M92@ implication filed may 24., 191.9. .Serial No. 299,472.

provision of an ice carrier for automobiles,

susceptible ready application to the running board of an automobile, adapted when riot in use to be conveniently carried ini-collapsed state, and possessed of the capacity or function of ositivel envavin a block of ice with View to retaining the same in the carrier and out of contact with the automobile body.

To the attainment of the foregoing the invention consists in the peculiar and advantageous carrier hereinafter described and deinitely claimed.

ln the accompanying drawings, .hereby made a part hereof:

Figure 1 is a perspective showing myv novel carrier in use.

F ig. 2 is a view taken transversely through the running board in a plane at one side of the carrier.

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the carrierA as applied.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of thev carrier.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings.

The running board 1 and the splash guard '2 are the parts of an automobile germano to the application of my inventlon, and

therefore f1 have deemed it unnecessary to illustrate any other parts of an automobile.

My novelcarrier comprises two attaching members y3 and anupright retaining member Il. The attaching members 3 are eachl of general -U-shape to straddle the running board 1 after the manner best shown in Fig. 2, and each preferably has a comparatively long upper arm 5 designed to bear solidly in superimposed relation upon the running board, and a shorter arm 6 that is disposed below the running board and is equipped with a clamping screw 7.v Manifestly the said attaching members may' be expeditiously and easily affixed upon the running board without liability of casual movement or displacement, and yet the said attachside slip, though they will4 ing members may be readilff removed when 1t is not desired to use i. e carrier. The upper arms of the members are provided with barbs v8 which are pr"ferablyI out and pressed upwardly therefrom and are snecically intended to hold. a bloeit of ice against f viso manifestly serve to prevent the bloclr, from engaging and marring 'the automobile body. ln their upper and lower arms and adjacent to their bights the attaching members 3 are provided with vcr..cally disposed apertures 9. These apertures 9 are designed to receive the lower reduced erld portions 10 ofmthe uprights 11 comprised in the retaining member, 4; the said end portions 10 being apertured `at 12 to receive cotter pins 13 through the medium of which the retaining member is detachably connected tothe Iittaching members.

.In addition'to the upright members 11, the retaining member 4 includes crossbars le, two or more in number, and which crossbars are formed integral with or are connected to the uprights in any approved mannei` without affecting my invention.

In practice the u right retaining member l may be readily d1sconnected from the attaching members 3 so that the carrier as a whole may be carried in. small compass in any desired nart of an automobile.

o apply the carrier, it is simply necessary to posi-tion and clamp the members 3 on some cases,

the running board 1,' and then drop the retaining member 4in and secure the same to the attaching members, when the carrier is ready for use, and will be found to be highly efficient for retaining a block of ice in such position on the automobile that the ice Vwill not injure the automobile or subject the occupants thereofv to discomfort.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by LettersPatent is: l

1. An ice carrier for automobiles, comprising attaching members equipped to straddle an automobile yrunning board in spaced and parallel relation and carrying clamping screws in their lower larms and having alined vertical apertures in'l their lower and upper arms adjacent to their bights and also having barbs on their upper arms, an'upri ht retaining member having reduced port1ons dropped in said apertures of the attaching members andI adapted to be held against the edge of a running board, and means detachably connecting said portions of the retaining member to the attachingy members.

2. An ice carrier for automobiles, comprising attaching members equipped' to straddle an automobile running board in spaced and parallel relation and carrying clamping screws in their lower arms and 10 having alined vertical apertures their lower and upper arms adjacent lto their b ights and also having barbs on their upper arms, and an upright retaining member having reduced portions dropped in said apertures of the attaching members and adapted to be held against the edge'of a running board.

In testimony whereof I aiiX my signature. l

ARNOLD W. THIELEPAPE. 

